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You Can’t Trust a Skinny Messiah

"if jesus was fat" and "hide and seek," two poems by Mandy Shunnarah

One of the Earliest Science Fiction Utopias Was a Protest Against Patriarchy

Over a century ago, Bengali Muslim writer Rokeya Hossain wrote a short story about a world run by women, fueled by solar power

Aug 8 - Tanya Agathocleous

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A Poetry Collection in Arabic and English About the Divine and the Profane

Zeina Hashem Beck’s "O" explores the many ways in which the failure of language can open new possibilities

Aug 5 - Arya Roshanian

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Too Busy for a Novel? Read These Short Stories Instead

Erica Plouffe Lazure, author of "Proof of Me," pairs books with short fiction

Aug 5 - Erica Plouffe Lazure

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I Can’t Separate My Writing and My Diagnosis, So I Use Them to Help One Another

Long before I was diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder, I was writing to manage the symptoms

Aug 4 - Sydney Hegele

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A Queer Gender-Swapped Retelling of “Frankenstein”

Addie Tsai’s novel "Unwieldy Creatures" explores the transgressive nature of existing in a queer body within a society obsessed with heteronormative beauty

Aug 4 - Monica Macansantos

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